On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:28:23AM -0400, chillfan wrote: > I'd prefer to see chips from scratch, rather than patching on features > late in the game. We can be pretty sure chip makers will only patch > problems as they are found instead of redesigning their chips to > prevent future problems. > > My reaction to the situation is that I'll no longer buy new hardware > at all. Everything I buy now is second user, until I see chip makers > pulling their finger out and doing what really needs doing. > > On top of that I'll only buy hardware that can be free software down > to the bios. It should be nothing to them what runs in the bios, so > I'll wait and see if they can be more flexible there (for however long > it takes).
I've been trying that for a while now, but my server is starting to fail. It may not be an option unless I want to get out of computing altogether. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
